An interdisciplinary research team has investigated whether there are quantitative differences that can be used to identify individual potters who make traditional, fixed-shape vessels that have been ...

Analysis of more than 1,200 vessels from hunter-gatherer sites has shown that pottery-making techniques spread vast distances over a short period of time through the transmission of social traditions.

Researchers have found a unique pottery vessel dating back some 7,200 years ago. The unique vessel was apparently used for ritual purposes, ensuring that certain people or groups could maintain their ...

Archaeologists discovered 12,000-year-old pottery at Çemka Höyük, Turkey, revealing some of the earliest known ceramics.

Our study aims to investigate further how these regions differed in pottery production and use in the Upper Qujialing to Shijiahe transition. We conducted our research mainly by analyzing the chemical ...

Multiple burial tomb belonging to the Corded Ware Culture (dating back 4,500 years), discovered in Oechlitz, Saxony-Anhalt. The corded ware decorated vessel contained milk, while the small pot ...

Many artistic changes took place in the Greek world during the Hellenistic period, defined as the three centuries between the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the ...

Analysis of more than 1,200 vessels from hunter-gatherer sites has shown that pottery-making techniques spread vast distances over a short period of time through social traditions being passed on.